The New York Times reports that Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google is donating a million dollars to Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) which helped him and his family escape the Soviet Union.
"Were it not for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, there might be no Google. Thirty years ago today, Sergey Brin, a 6-year-old Soviet boy facing an uncertain future, arrived in the United States with the help of the society. Now Mr. Brin, the billionaire co-founder of Google, is giving $1 million to the society, widely known as HIAS, which helped his family escape anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and establish itself here."

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Immigration, an issue placed on the congressional backburner by attempts to revamp the nation's health care system, is percolating again as Republican lawmakers are pushing a measure that would require U.S. Census forms to include a question about the citizenship status of respondents.

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Dear Editor:
Regarding ID Comment (10/23/09 ID): The question of whether the person status should be reported in the census is going to deter and true count of the population we have at this time. This question will defray the nonimmigrant to not be included unless someone will convince that this is not a form to know where they are and that by reporting it it would be for their best interest. As it is all these raids have convince the nonimmigrant that this is another way to single them out and to deport them eventually.

Gladys C Farris

Dear Editor:
Regarding Jim Roberts' letter's (10/26/09 ID) question:
"... so when are liberals going to stop their hate against citizens who want less entry?" "Liberals" don't "hate citizens who want less entry", What we hate are the duplistic sleights of "mind" that result in such facile statements as the one above... and so many others that the Jim Roberts' letters have offerred in the past.

JH

Dear Editor:
On the (10/26/09 ID) letters, the R.
Algase letter
believes it is "American" to ban the free speech rights of those who
have other views, calling them "bigots". What could be more un-American?
Why is restricting free speech OK, but not entry numbers?
This is delusion (See 2nd Thess. 2). It is R. Yang's letter that gets
"more ridiculous each time we read them" being oblivious to realities,
religion and boundaries which reduces US to an economic corporation and
merely a marketplace to buy, sell and work. Does the letter really think
we are a "theocracy dictatorship"? Is it fair competition when Chinese
steal or are given technologies from US, producing products under
conditions that would be illegal here and then given a green light to
our markets without tariffs? We need fair trade that protects US, not
free trade globalism that destroys our markets and jobs. This is what
will "reverse our trade deficits" as fully discussed in the articles by
Pat Buchannon ("Globalism and Americanism") and Frosty Wooldridge ("Made
in China: Importing America to Its Own Death"). The S.L. letter's
attempt at wit succeeds only by half. What the letter deems my
"insulting fiction" is in fact the learned opinion of Wikipedia
regarding the reasons for the Chinese Exclusion Act, no mention of "skin
color". Confucius said, "Man who throws dirt loses Ground". To replace
America's interests with specious egalitarianism and hyphenated
Americans is truly "chutzpah".

Jim Roberts

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